Malaria
Mapping Niger to deliver malaria medicines
A U.S.-backed program is helping to get malaria medicine delivered in Niger by making sure maps accurately show the location of health facilities.
How science works in the U.S.
The U.S. scientific culture encourages new discoveries. It does it through collaboration, public funding, open science, peer review and outreach.
Creative ways to prevent malaria in Zimbabwe
A U.S.-backed project helped the Chapoto community in Zimbabwe create an audiobook that teaches malaria prevention and treatment in their own language.
A song to end malaria
April 25 is World Malaria Day. Learn how the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative is helping to protect communities against the deadly disease.
U.S. broadens effort to combat malaria in Africa
The U.S. President's Malaria Initiative will expand its malaria prevention programs into four new countries in West and Central Africa.
Putting HIV and malaria prevention on the map
Volunteers in Africa and the U.S. are helping fill in details of unmarked satellite images for areas affected by HIV and malaria.
7 facts you should know about USAID’s new leader
Meet the new USAID administrator who volunteered in Kenya, was ambassador to Tanzania, and has family in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K.
Let’s end malaria for good
World Malaria Day is April 25. Learn the methods one community in Kenya is using to create huge reductions in the number of malaria cases.
Modified mosquitoes may eliminate malaria
Scientists are able to fight malaria by genetically modifying the disease's carrier, mosquitoes.